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Although it’s right there in the name, it’s not entirely clear whether
composer/leader Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra is in fact an orchestra, a big
band or something entirely and wildly different. Encompassing broad swaths of
musical style in both original and recontextualized and re-imagined compositions,
the Awakening Orchestra delves deep into traditions from classical to jazz to indie
rock on their debut album, volume I: this is not the answer.
Interspersing original work - like the intricate, four-part, title-track symphony -
with often radical interpretations of work by Samuel Barber, Radiohead, Johannes
Brahms and Low, volume I: this is not the answer crafts a powerful mix of written
and improvised material

Sorry. If this is the direction in which big-band jazz is moving, please apply the brakes as quickly and gently as possible so that this listener may exit the train. When it comes to big bands, some members of an older generation cling to standards that must always be upheld. Not swinging is from time to ...

On the heals of the excellent debut This Is Not the Answer, Vol 1 (Innova Recordings, 2014), composer/conductor Kyle Saulnier leaves the writing credits to featured guitarist/composer Jesse Lewis on Interlude: Atticus Live!-The Music of Jesse Lewis. Not a regular member of Saulnier's Awakening Orchestra, Lewis had recorded each of these tracks on his similarly named ...

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2014 Track listing: Disc 1: Part I: Of Conflict and Resolution. Prelude & Fanfare, "The Prophet"; Myxomatosis, "Judge, Jury and Executioner"; The Words, They Fail to Come; Alone Together; Protest; You Still Believe in Me. Disc 2: Part II: This is Not the Answer. 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major; This Is Not the Answer: I. Overture and Evolution; This Is Not the Answer: II. Empty Promises; This Is Not the Answer: III. This Is Not the Answer; This Is Not the Answer: IV. The Hypocrite and the Hope; Murderer; Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo.

Connecticut native Kyle Saulnier is both a life-long student and a working teacher of jazz. The multi-instrumentalist and composer leads the 20-piece Awakening Orchestra's debut, This Is Not the Answer and it is as rare an achievement as Carla Bley's historic Escalator Over The Hill (ECM, 1971). The latter work--more jazz-operetta in orientation and prescribed in ...

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